230 Mike wrote:
Cap'n Morgan wrote:
I noticed quite a few
Buttkissers
And
Boating
Cronies members sighned up in the first 3 or 4 days of this boards' existance, but never posted much, if at all, after that. Must be this boards' lack of political talk, and doom and gloom financial babble that kept them away.


And all this time I thought I was the only one who felt that way.

Nope, you're not alone. It's very nice having a board that maintains a cordial atmosphere.
Some folks seem hell bent on wandering off onto all sorts of tangents. I liken it to a bookstore or library. You go to the boat section to read, guess what, stuff about boats. If you want politics and the rest you're free to use those sections. Since it's trivially easy to go to entirely different web sites and forums there's no real need to cram all sorts of unrelated forums together. I've not really seen any "improvement" in the underlying focus of a forum when it has lots of other crap tacked onto it. Just the opposite most of the time. The outrageous and arrogant behavior some folks seem bent on expressing gets spread across all the forums, generally ruining them in the process. I guess it does mean less traffic for a web site when there's not all the juvenile insulting and posturing going on. Oh well. I'd rather have useful content instead.